elton, lovely to see you, lovely to talk to you. congratulations on the book i ve thoroughly enjoyed it. there s something that s not in it. i came to watford with leicester city a long time ago around 79 80 and one of our players got a terrible gash in his leg and was carried off and had to have stitches in the dressing room and you went down to comfort him. do you have any memory of that? i don t. that was me. really, i don t. it was you? it was me. and you came down in the second half to see if i was all right, and that s something that s always stuck with me. and it was a very special moment, yeah. you ve got the book, watford forever. why now? why are you doing that book now? i was approached byjohn preston, who wrote the book, and said, it s a really interesting subject and i thought, yeah, it has i haven t really talked about it and i wanted to get my side of the story out because i think we weren t given enough credit for what we did. and also, i think wh
and said, it s a really interesting subject and i thought, yeah, it has i haven t really talked about it and i wanted to get my side of the story out because i think we weren t given enough credit for what we did. and also, i think when you read the book, it s about the sense of community that s not really in football any more not in the top six or anything like that. it s gone from football a bit, but not with the lower clubs. but i just love that sense of community, and that s what football must never lose. you started your interest in football when you were very young. very young. your dad brought you here. yeah, my dad brought me here when i was about six, five or six. but i also used to sit on the touchline at craven cottage because my cousin, roy dwight, played for fulham in the same team asjimmy hill, bedford jezzard, johnny haynes, tony macedo. so, i grew up watching fulham a lot as well but this was my local team and then, when roy went to nottingham forest,
elton, lovely to see you, lovely to talk to you. congratulations on the book i ve thoroughly enjoyed it. there s something that s not in it. i came to watford with leicester city a long time ago around 79 80 and one of our players got a terrible gash in his leg and was carried off and had to have stitches in the dressing room and you went down to comfort him. do you have any memory of that? i don t. that was me. really, i don t. that was me. it was you? it was me. and you came down in the second half to see if i was all right, and that s something that s always stuck with me. and it was a very special moment, yeah. you ve got the book, watford forever. why now? why are you doing that book now? i was approached byjohn preston, who wrote the book, and said, it s a really interesting subject and i thought, yeah, it has i haven t really talked about it and i wanted to get my side of the story out because i think we weren t given enough credit for what we did. and als
we are shocked like everyone in greece, obviously. after we were informed of this incident, all services were mobilised. the municipality of kalamata we have prepared. we are hearing that, unfortunately, the number of dead is increasing. our europe correspondent nick beake is in athens and has this update. we don t know the scale of this disaster tonight, but it s clear it is bad. more than 100 people have been rescued, but survivors are saying that up to 700 people, they believe, were on board this fishing boat. it set off reportedly from libya and was heading to italy. an image has emerged showing the vessel packed with people in the deepest part of the mediterranean. no one, it would seem, had a life jacket on. the greek authorities have said tonight that they went towards the vessel and that no one wanted help when they offered it. but that has been challenged by an organisation which provides an emergency phone number for people at sea, and it says, in fact, the authorit
are shocked like everyone in greece, obviously. after we were informed of this incident all services were mobilised, and the municipality of kalamata is prepared, we are hearing about the number of dad thatis hearing about the number of dad that is increasing. the hearing about the number of dad that is increasing. that is increasing. the un secretary that is increasing. the un secretary general - that is increasing. the un i secretary general expressed that is increasing. the un - secretary general expressed his distress at the latest developments, his spokesperson giving his reaction to the news from greece. giving his reaction to the news from greece. today we have yet another tragic from greece. today we have yet another tragic illustration, - from greece. today we have yet another tragic illustration, i - another tragic illustration, i can tell you secretary general was horrified by the reports of a shipwreck that took place off the coast of greece, claiming the co